BACKGROUND Religious coping is known as a main resource influencing how individuals cope with the complications and stressors of chronic disease. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between religious coping and quality of life among hemodialysis patients. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in Qom, Iran, from June 2012 to July 2013. Ninety-five end-s...

This paper provides a norm-based explanation for two features of the fertility transition that have been observed in many different settings: the slow response to external interventions and the wide variation in the response to the same intervention. Most societies have traditionally put norms into place to regulate fertility. When the economic environment changes, individuals gradually learn t...

The article presents the results of a sociological study conducted in 2019 jointly with Department Regional Studies Russia, National and State-Confessional Relations Altai State University Religious Sector Tuva Institute Humanities Applied Socio-Economic Research under Government Republic on territory Tuva. In course study, materials were obtained to assess level ethnic religious tolerance regi...

Rational choice or action theory may be understood as one possible interpretation of Weber's program, though it must be said a rather special one in that it invites us to adopt the least complex conception of social action that we can analytically get away with in arriving at a "causal explanation of its course and effects." It thus departs from many post-Weberian (and for that matter pre-Weber...

In this article I present the attitude of adult Catholics in Poland second half 20th century and both decades 21st towards Theocentrical dogmas indicators their faith religious meanning these dogmas. The basis ftor analysis Roman to Christian are results sociological research carried out turn centuries. These studies showed that century, a much greater percentage Catholic accepted Theocentric d...

We investigate two sets of two-epoched reionization models and their manifestation in the CMB anisotropy and polarization data of the recent WMAP project and make some predictions for the future Planck missions. In the first set of models, the universe was reionized twice, first at z ≃ 15 by population III stars and then at z ≃ 6 by stars in large galaxies. In the second set of models, the extr...

background & aim: considering the lack of information regarding the effects of religion on young couples’ fertility preferences, this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between religious beliefs and fertility preferences among engaged couples in mashhad, iran, in 2013. methods:this cross-sectional study was conducted on 450 engaged couples, referring to premarital counseling clinics at he...